Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

Name: Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age
Brand: Pennsylvania State University Press
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By Cascardi, Anthony J.

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Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was in the throes of modernization arising from trade with the New World and the rise of an urban society. During this period, Spanish culture came to be dominated by the tension between an old regime of traditional values—honor, lineage, purity of blood—and these modernizing influences. Anthony J. Cascardi examines the literature of the Golden Age as the point at which tensions between the old and the new converged and proposes that this historical drama provided the context for subject-formation in early modern Spain. He examines how Spanish writers envisioned history and studies how these visions revealed or concealed contradictions between social values of their time, particularly between the value systems of caste and class. Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age draws on recent theoretical paradigms in contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, and literary history to place Spain's major literary figures in challenging new contexts. By accounting for both modernizing desires and resistances to modernization, Cascardi provides readers interested in theories of ideology and history with a new way of looking at the literature of the Spanish Golden Age.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 336
Release Date:: 1997-10-01
Publication Date:: 2004-05-21
Publisher:: Pennsylvania State University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0271025697
ISBN13:: 9780271025698
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 547 g
Height:: 152 cm
Width:: 229 cm
Thickness:: 20 cm

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